All letters will appear in upper caps. Note if you type capital letter with shift key and Caps Lock on it will be typed in lower case. To turn Caps Lock off press it again.
Keyboards have usually built in a light which lets you know if your Caps Lock is on or off. Rhythm Strive to type with even rhythm. Even rhythm will rid you of tension, anxiety and will minimize mistakes made. Besides, if you slow down to achieve even rhythm you will in effect speed up.
Errors Acceptable number of typing errors is one error per minute regardless of how fast you type. Wpm Wpm stands for words per minute typing rate. A word is consider to be 5 key strokes including spaces. If you type 50 key strokes per minute your typing rate is 10 wpm.
No mistakes. Always be sure and in control. Slower is faster. Speed comes from certainty. The more you type things correctly, no matter how slow it has to be, the more certain you will be, and the faster you will become a proficient typist.
Increase speed only when you feel sure enough to do so. Don't look at the keyboard! If you don't know where a key is, look at the keyboard to find it, then look away and type the key. Do not guess; always be sure. Type to a steady rhythm. Generally, the time between keystrokes should be the same, giving you a sense of flow and the ability to scan ahead at a constant speed. No unnecessary or dysfunctional tension. Enjoy the rhythm of your own typing!
Hit the keys squarely in the center. It should feel good to type! Press the "Click here to start" button, then type what you see on the screen. If you type correctly, the letter will turn to grey. If you err, it won't, and you will hear an error sound. Considering that the author of this actually struggled with RSI only reinforces my suspicions. Through grade school I hated the typing courses. They seemed way to straining and repetitive. And my long fingers did not help.
Looking at my finger placement I realized that I do exactly what your new method was saying. Just thought it was pretty cool. Me, I use the old method except for one key … the R.
I came across the book on a forum discussing RSI; the book was recommended by a computer programmer who cured his RSI through the techniques and concepts it contains.
Low and behold it cured mine too, in a matter of weeks! I learned that my RSI had another cause other than typing. And the evidence is irrefutable; I can now type for pretty much as long as I want without taking breaks thanks to the information I learned in that book.
Please note that I have no ties to Sarno, I am not advertising on his behalf. I am just someone who knows how hard it can be having RSI, someone who wants to share the success I have had in not only treating but completely curing it. If anyone reading this has RSI or a variety of other ailments such as carpel tunnel syndrome, back pain and others, as detailed in the book please read the book and try to keep an open mind. I promise you that it healed me; it could heal you too.
Whilst I have already cured my RSI as detailed above, I like your reasoning; that both hands should mirror each other by having the fingers curl outwards instead of inward on the left hand. I may try this approach. It would be great to see some data on whether or not it has helped others speed up their typing speed. Dear Peter, I loved your idea. It gave me a new hope to learn typing. I have to move my whole hand if I use my pinky, but just the finger if I use my ring finger. Hello, I recently started learning how to touch type and I have always thought that the universally taught layout was very uncomfortable.
Thank you for this information because after reading this and trying your method, my typing speed and accuracy have increased greatly. I am 88 and an author of 2 books and many articles. For this reason I practise typing skills. I use the left ring finger for w, s and z; the middle left for e, d and x; the index finger for r, f, c and also for t, g and v.
Continuing across the keyboard I use the right index finger for y, h and b; also for u. This seems to me to be the logical sequence, since it is almost straight up and down. So i, k and m follow, then o, l and comma; then p, semi-colon and full stop. The big thing is B.
However I would welcome advice on Numbers. Too many errors!! Tony BP. But It just seem really uncomfortable and unatural trying to type that way. Oh my god! I never thought I would ever find an article related to the problem i was facing.
I am learning to speed type from various interactive tutorial sites speedtyping, typingcat, ratatype,typingclub. They all have very well defined courses. I had to uplift my index finger so that middle finger could do the work.
It was always trouble and i never felt comfortable and naturally rhythmic with my fingers. Thank you so much for sharing this piece. I really resonated with this. Your article has given me the confidence to customize my finger placement and continue learning with it.
I will continue learning on those sites, but surely will modify the placement of fingers for some alphabets. Then I found your article, it made me feel so much confident.
Thanks for writing this article. Thank you so much! The extra key on Euro keyboards is awful, but here perhaps is the one place the half-key offset helps.
Not really. When I type, I do what ever my mind makes my hands do in the moment. I usually use my pointer and middle finger the most, sometimes my ring, but never my pinky and thumb finger.
I make a lot of mistakes but I am extremely fast at typing. I tried to learn touch typing years ago. These days, I think my hands are just the wrong shape for touch typing. They need to move around for my fingers to reach all the keys, so I need to glance at the keyboard often to check where they are.
So… Yeah, the right side of my left hand does prefer the vertical lines tilted to the right like in your diagram. But the left side? Pulling my pinky straight down puts it directly over the Z.
With my fingers firmly on the home row, I simply cannot reach Z with my ring finger. My ring finger curls naturally right over the X. And then finally my index finger naturally curls in towards the C. I dunno. Maybe I just have long fingers and thus the curl effect is stronger. Do you have the keyboard over to the left to make room for the mouse? Maybe I should try it. I just created an IPA keyboard layout and I am getting use to it but I flew into the exact problem you mentioned.
I used the Dvorak keyboard as the source base and did not change any character keys from it. My design was suppose to be the w lined up under u, and j lined up under i on the left side. The index, middle, and ring are on i, a, u the three primary vowels.
I am not sure if I should consider using Colemak as a basis and others have talked about on here. But the short cut keys are totally shot on on my IPA layout. Hi, I have been a hunt-and-pecker typer since I started using a computer, 20 years ago. And the most frustrating thing is that there was almost no progress during this period. I was averaging wpm for a long… long time. I started researching and luckily I found your article.
This change made complete sense to me, much more comfortable. But then… I read the comments, and one of them, from , mentions that the qwerty layout was created to solve jamming problems in typing machines. I found this fascinating and I started researching about it. Anyways, I tried a few modern layouts, created to actually make typing easier.
Colemak is the one for me. Colemak has a few variants or mods , and one of them uses a very similar finger placement as the one you show in this post. I am now at 35 wpm. Still slow, I know, but that was achieved in one month. I got used to practicing half an hour every day, before I start working, sometimes longer.
There are very good online lessons and games available online. Right now, I am at the stage when muscle memory is starting to kick in. And what do I meat with all this? Sharing my experience is my way of saying thanks and a bit of extra practicing!
Even though I am not using the layout you are discussing in your article, you pointed me in the right direction. Thanks a lot for showing this method!
It does give me a better feeling and I do not feel forced to twist my left fingers. I got used to type in qwerty. With time, I got used to type this way.
I have been using this hand placement ever since I started typing; I am honestly not sure I even realized this was strange or nonstandard until I saw this post. I like to think my hands are much happier for it. So far we have been using the same qwerty design pattern only. It gives me a comfort feel. May be its because of the using that quite a long time. At a certain point, I think you just start to use whatever finger is most convenient within the context.
For example, I often use whatever finger will allow easy access to the next letter the hand of that finger will need to type next. This often results in choices that leave my hand most open to the other keys—which, yeah, eliminates a lot of the standard finger placements that result in outward- and under- curling of the hand.
My hands come in almost from the side of the keyboard in a normal seated position. This just felt way more comfortable as angling the wrists inwards is terrible ergonomics and a recipe for carpal tunnel.
With this placement hands and wrists are essentially in the same position as they are with one of those ergo split keyboards. That is just completely absurd for the same reasons that you brought up in the article. So great I found your website! Thank you. Previous post: One-Hand Typing. How your left-hand fingers curl inward to hit the bottom row?
It makes my hands want to scream in pain. I thought this was normal home-row technique, but apparently not. Feels good man. You already type like this with your right hand. Do it with your left as well. Universally Taught The sad thing is that this uncomfortable finger placement is so widespread.
Non-Staggered Layouts Some specialized ergonomic keyboards actually correct for this issue. Try it. What do you think? Comments on Hacker News. My thought exactly. My scheme is this: left pinky: 1 2 left ring finger: 3 left middle finger: 4 left index finger: 5 6 right index: 7 8 right middle finger: 9 right ring finger: 0 To me, this feels as the less straining way.
Hope this helps to improve your and other people typing experience:- Reply. Just go with the flow, guys. Y Reply. Still very surprised that more people do not type this way.
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